Poweredge 1300

John Baxendale John.Baxendale at zendor.com
Wed Aug 9 04:30:30 CDT 2006


linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com wrote:
> I have a Poweredge 1300 with PERC raid, which I'm trying to set up
> running Linux. I have tried the current versions of Fedora
> Core, CentOS
> and Ubuntu, but none of them have the drivers. In googling
> for answers I
> found mention that no current distribution includes the
> drivers for the
> 1300, that it is too old. Can anyone tell me a
> distribution/version that
> has the drivers included as part of the base distribution?
> 
> Gary

If you're not averse to it as a distribution, then Gentoo releases have,
in my experience always included a great variety of drivers. I recently
installed onto a PE1300 using 2005.1 and had no problems with the
megaraid onboard RAID.

HTH.
John Baxendale



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